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11/09/2008

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08-11-09-A

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POETRY INSTEAD
Poetry Slam Champion - Patricia Smith
Why Poetry Matters - Jay Parini
What Makes a Child Lucky? - Gioia Timpanelli
The Biplane Houses - Les Murray

Hour 2

08-11-09-B
(was 07-11-25-B)

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FOOD STORIES
Dan Barber is a New York Chef who talks about killing a hog
Judith Jones - the legendary cookbook editor has written a memoir
Ray Turner is a connoisseur of eels
The Kitchen Sisters offer an audio review of "hidden kitchens"
Jane Hamilton may be the only bestselling novelist who also lives in an apple orchard

11/16/2008

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08-11-16-A

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MEET THE PRESS
The Celebrity Interview - Chuck Klosterman
Election Satire - Joe Garden
Birth of the Tabloid - Jack Vitek
Literary Journalism - Gay Talese

Hour 2

08-11-16-B
(was 07-12-02-B)

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TRANSGENDER IDENTITY
Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz are the co-authors of a collaborative memoir about Raz Link's surgical transformation from female to transsexual male.
Kelley Eskridge is the author of gender-bending speculative fiction
Jason Goodwin has written two novels about a eunuch detective in the Ottoman Empire
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is an English performer, musician, writer and artist

11/23/2008

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08-11-23-A

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SCI-FI AND PHILOSOPHY

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08-11-23-A
(was 07-12-16-A)

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THIS SADNESS
Jerome Wakefield asks "is sadness the same as depression?"
Joshua Shenk believes Lincoln's depression fueled his greatness?
Eric Steel spent a year filming the Golden Gate Bridge, and the people who jumped from it
Michael Nye took photographs of San Antonio's homeless, and asked them for their stories.

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